My images begin with the personal connections I make while traveling in Burma, and become a relationship between the people I encounter and their immediate environment. I seek out remote places that have been relatively untouched by industrial development in order to photograph those whose culture and traditional way of life is visually different from my own. Photographing, in particular, the young people of families whom I repeatedly visit, I emphasize the spirit of imagination within their landscape and the self possessed courage with which they face their circumstances. Although the specific Burmese people I photograph make up the content of my images, I also want to transcend the depiction of individual lives, to acknowledge their participation in a grander scale of human meaning and human drama. I look to photograph the extraordinary resonance humming within lives most ordinary.